Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

#1

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 3:05pm

There have been so many stage shows (plays or musicals) adapted from literary works (novels, short stories, even poems.) This seems to be particularly true lately, but probably dates back a long, long way.
So what do you think are the most successful of these?


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Updated On: 10/26/12 at 03:05 PM

#2

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 3:38pm

The Poop That Took A Pee.

#3

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 3:43pm

This seems to be particularly true lately, but probably dates back a long, long way.

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#4

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 3:46pm

I find Lerner & Loewe's "Everybody Poops" adaptation to be one of the finest of the 20th century.

#5

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 4:16pm

Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific, and Guys and Dolls

#6

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 5:53pm

Comden and Green's Go the F*CK to Sleep

#7

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 5:56pm

Well, if we're talking about most financially successful, we all know the answer to that question...

#8

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 6:03pm

Jason Robert Brown's The Gas We Pass

#9

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 6:35pm

Frank Wildhorn's Whatever's in the Public Domain.

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#10

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 6:43pm

Stephen Sondheim's "Strangers With Candy"

#11

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 6:49pm

Rodgers and Hammerstein's perennial Daddy's Roommate

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#12

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 7:05pm

And who could forget Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sing about Love... And not much else"

#13

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 7:06pm

Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

#14

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 7:49pm

"Jason Robert Brown's The Gas We Pass" is brilliant!

#15

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 8:02pm

Sorry, but that show stinks.

#16

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 8:23pm

Was that written by Edna Fartber?

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#17

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 8:28pm

I apologize for that last joke. It was gastley.

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"Through The Sacrifice You Made, We Can't Believe The Price You Paid..For Love!"

#18

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 9:18pm

Some of these SHOULD be shows.
Too late for Rodgers and Hammerstein to do Daddy's Roommate, but how about Benj Pasek and Justin Paul?

#19

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 10:18pm

The Lion King

#20

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 10:40pm

The strip club down the street that is doing "The Book of More Men"

#21

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 11:34pm

The Heiress, The Member of the Wedding

#22

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/21/12 at 11:54pm

Too bad this thread went to sh*t.

I'm an enormous fan of the film version of THE HOURS. I am also a fan of the source material, but I feel that this film is the perfect meeting of actor/ material in every role. It simply elevates the material to another (IMHO-- unbelievable) level.

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#23

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/22/12 at 12:04am

My Fair Lady, because it is practically Shaw word-for-word. (And brilliant).

#24

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/22/12 at 1:55am

Stephen Sondheim's "Strangers With Candy"

Brilliant, how amazing would that be.?

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#25

Best Literary Adaptation Ever?

Posted: 10/22/12 at 4:19am

Rebecca.